D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Christian Quotes, Jesus Quotes

We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

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Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

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I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

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Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

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Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

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One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

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I shall always be a priest of love.

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The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

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Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

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There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

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